Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Rick Perry & Al Gore (WTF)

Rick Perry Was Al Gore’s Texas Campaign Chairman in 1988.


Ho hum? 
or
Let's call the whole thing off?


Digging into the forum posts, I am inclined to agree with this argument:




Rick Perry in 1988 was honorary chairman of Al Gore's campaign in the Democrat primary in Texas. Perry at the time was a conservative Democrat State Representative. Al Gore's campaign in 1988 was short lived because Dukakis wrapped up the nomination quickly. Like most conservative Democrats during that period a quarter century ago, Perry made an easy transition into being a conservative Republican, he ran for Agriculture Commissioner in 1990 and was elected as a Republican. 
And Also
Al Gore back in 1988 was posing as a moderate Democrat, in fact of all the Democrats running that year Gore posed as the most conservative. He morphed into Mr Climate Change later. 


PolitiFact has this quote from Perry:


"Going through that (Gore experience) was part of what started me through the process of changing parties in 1989," Perry said. "I came to my senses."




h/t to the Dennis Miller Radio Show heard on 1280

2 comments:

  1. Now, now, let's review our History. Reagan was a Democrat AND a Union Thug (SAG) before he came to his senses. Not that I'm enamored of ANY current Republitard Politician at this moment...

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  2. Does anybody think that the Al Gore we know and love, the crunchy bunny-hugging Al of An Inconvenient Truth, could have been elected to statewide office in Tennessee in 1985?

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